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The Dismal Knight
Brabazon ambience
Category Story Event
Type Story
Data ID 308550

The Dismal Knight is a Sunless Skies Story Event.

Story description[ | ]

"Visions in Silver(duelling_the_quester)"

Trigger conditions[ | ]

Area: Limbo
Frequency: Always (100%)

Interactions[ | ]

Actions Requirements Effects Notes
Clear your mind
If this is a rural hillside, why does the air stink of smoke? Why can you half-hear the distant clamour of an overcrowded city?
Failed event

Advanced query needs investigation

Rational explanations
A distant forest fire is presumably to blame for the acrid smell. And the voices are mere ghosts on the wind.
Successful event
Sudden clarity
Brabazon... Brabazon! Not some moonlit hillside. The air is hot with smoke and sweat and plaintive cries. Brabazon, where every breath means a fresh lungful of soot.

As you look around, you realise that the 'knight' is actually the Dismal Chamberlain, much deteriorated. He would look professorial if not for his ragged clothes and lunatic grin; he brandishes not a sword, but a pen. At his feet a musclebound overseer is rolling in the dirt, hands clamped over his face.

"He called me a demon and stabbed his pen in my eye!" whines the overseer, jabbing a finger in the Chamberlain's vague direction.
Charge!
You will defeat the knight fair and square, in a duel that will be remembered in song.
Failed event

Game note: You have failed the quest for the Martyr-King's Cup. You can choose another Ambition at London, New Winchester, Pan, or Sky Barnet.

Game note: If you fail this challenge, you will fail the Ambition.

Defeated
The Chamberlain proves the better knight. His blade slides between a gap in your armour; you can feel it sink through flesh, grind between your ribs. Blood wells in your mouth as you fall from your horse.

The pain overwhelms you. When you recover, you are back in Brabazon, lying in the gutter. You've been unconscious for some time, and the Chamberlain is long-gone.

You don't seem to have any wounds, though the memory of steel sliding through you still makes you flinch.

    • Martyrkingscup icon Ambition: The Martyr-King's Cup = 100 [[COMPLETE]You have failed the quest for the Martyr-King's Cup. Perhaps a more worthy quester will take up your mantle one day]

    • Drink icon Stained = 1 [The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as over-rich, cindered and irrevocably damaged.]

    • Terror icon +5 x Terror

    Triggers event: Pastsmoggystreets The Bit Between

Successful event
Clash
You ride past each other once, twice. On the second pass, your sword-blow knocks him from the saddle. You jump from your horse to finish him off, but he parries your first strike and rises to his feet.

Blades clang and flash, swift as steel snakes. A flock of ravens rise, startled, from a nearby tree. Finally your sword sinks home; the rival knight sinks to his knees, your blade thrust through the gap between pauldron and breastplate.

"Mercy!" cries the knight, and you realise you are holding not a sword but a stick. The Dismal Chamberlain writhes at your feet, covered in swiftly-purpling bruises.
Chase him down
You can't let him get away, or he'll have his guard up next time.
Pursuing the Chamberlain
His journal showed that he has (or had) a brilliant mind, but you didn't expect the Dismal Chamberlain to prove much of an athlete. Despite his advanced years, however, he is surprisingly sprightly.

You chase him down the alley, and he climbs a drainpipe in a flash. Pursuing him across the rooftops, you momentarily hear the thunder of hooves and see moonlight overhead – but you force yourself to remember where you are.

Finally, the slates scatter and slip from beneath the Chamberlain's feet. He topples over the guttering and lands with a hideous thump on the street below.

You drop smoothly down to him.
Turn tail and flee
You're not yet ready to challenge your rival quester.


Links[ | ]

Links In[ | ]

Brabazon ambience The Bit Between

Links Out[ | ]

Brabazon ambience The Bit Between, Brabazon ambience A Defeated Knight


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